Busy Weekend and a leaky pipe

Our little family had a busy weekend. It started on Saturday with Tim's Grandpa's family holiday gathering. In order to get ready for being gone for a few hours, Tim took Sophie and Lilybelle over to play with Darby and I took Sunny for a walk. When I got back from my walk, I needed to pump. So I started pumping when we got a knock at the door. I almost ignored the knock, but I decided that I should look to see who it is in case it was Tim and he needed help in with the baby. It wasn't Tim instead it was a police officer who asked me to open the door. So I quickly put Sunny in the bedroom and remove my pump accessories (although it would have been a little funny to open the door with them still on, I just wasn't feeling it). He asked me if that was my car parked on the street in front of our house and I said yes. He then started talking about the street leaking and I assumed that he meant Tim's car is leaking, but when he started talking about a sinkhole I really look at the street, and realized it was leaking water; water was shooting out of the street.

  I couldn't believe it, I had never seen anything like this. I called Tim and let him know about it. By the time he came home he had to park around the block because they had our part of the street blocked off. We went to Tim's Grandpa's party, and when we came home the utility workers were working on it. I then started getting ready for our Ward's Christmas Party by making my first ever batch of funeral potatoes that turned out good if I do say so myself.

By this time, we still had water. When Tim let the dogs outside one of the workers stopped him and let him know that they were going to have to turn our water off in order to fix it because it was our connection to the water main that was leaking. In the picture below is a sandbag over our connection to help slow down the small stream in the hole in the street. So we went to our party, and when we came home we had no water, but it was back on before we went to bed. When we went to bed that night, they were still working on it, but by the next morning everything was fine.

So that was our adventure over the weekend. Two parties and a broken pipe in one day.